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The grounds of decision of Ariff Yusof J in upholding the ban on K. Arumugam's Tamil book, "March 8" regarding the violent clashes in Kampung Medan on 8th March 2001.
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The final instalment, where the cynical writer finds that maybe he did not waste him 3 days in Geneva.
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Malaysians making oral interventions on the Judiciary again. No amusing repetitions of "correct, correct, correct" this time, though.
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The oral interventions at the United Nations by our intrepid Malaysian duo cause some excitement.
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Was the UN Minorities Forum held in Geneva in November 2009 useful or just set piece theatre? K Shanmuga attended, and this is Part 1 of his report.
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I have seen firsthand what "dialogue" means to some - you do not talk, you only talk on our terms, you listen to us and don't talk, and if you are allowed to talk, you can only say what we want to hear.
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The grounds of decision of Ariff Yusof J in the SIS book banning case.
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The recent Federal Court decision has righted an egregious error in the law. But landowners can still be swindled out of their properties.
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From April 2009 until recently, about 300,000 people were held in internment camps in Sri Lanka, behind barbed wires. Their only crime was to be Tamil. Their detention was not judicially reviewed, the international media and Red Cross could not see them. Those who detained them got away scot free. And some Malaysians are...
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SUARAM's urgent appeal on the plight of Sri Lankan refugees who complain they are being illtreated by Malaysian officials is reproduced below. Sri Lanka's government has been accused of grave war crimes and humanitarian abuses. Despite that, it appears that the Malaysian government is assisting fficials from the Sri Lankan High Commission repatriate ethnic...
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